"On the value of information in gambling, evolution and thermodynamics", Prof. Luca Peliti (SMRI, Italy)
Date
Friday, February 2, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
Location
C210, Center Building
Description
- Date: Friday, February 2nd
- Time: 14:00-15:00
- Venue: C210, Center Building
- Speaker: Luca Peliti, Professor, Deputy Director at SMRI, Italy
- Title: On the value of information in gambling, evolution and thermodynamics
Abstract:
The connection between the information value of a message and capital gain was made by Kelly in 1956. In 1965 Kimura tried to evaluate the rate of information intake by a population undergoing Darwinian evolution by equating it with the substitutional load. Recently, the analogy between Kelly's scheme and work extraction was pointed out in the context of stochastic thermodynamics. I shall try to connect these threads, highlighting analogies and differences between the meaning of information and its value in the different contexts.
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